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Construction of 2–Local Finite Groups of a Type Studied by Solomon ISSN 1364-0380 (on line) 1465-3060 (printed) 917 Geometry & Topology Volume 6 (2002) 917–990 Published: 31 December 2002 Construction of 2–local finite groups of a type studied by Solomon and Benson Ran Levi Bob Oliver Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aberdeen Meston Building 339, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK and LAGA – UMR 7539 of the CNRS, Institut Galil´ee Av J-B Cl´ement, 93430 Villetaneuse, France Email: [email protected] and [email protected] Abstract A p–local finite group is an algebraic structure with a classifying space which has many of the properties of p–completed classifying spaces of finite groups. In this paper, we construct a family of 2–local finite groups, which are exotic in the following sense: they are based on certain fusion systems over the Sylow 2–subgroup of Spin7(q) (q an odd prime power) shown by Solomon not to occur as the 2–fusion in any actual finite group. Thus, the resulting classifying spaces are not homotopy equivalent to the 2–completed classifying space of any finite group. As predicted by Benson, these classifying spaces are also very closely related to the Dwyer–Wilkerson space BDI(4). AMS Classification numbers Primary: 55R35 Secondary: 55R37, 20D06, 20D20 Keywords: Classifying space, p–completion, finite groups, fusion. Proposed:HaynesMiller Received:22October2002 Seconded: RalphCohen,BillDwyer Accepted: 31December2002 c Geometry & Topology Publications 918 Ran Levi and Bob Oliver As one step in the classification of finite simple groups, Ron Solomon [22] consid- ered the problem of classifying all finite simple groups whose Sylow 2–subgroups are isomorphic to those of the Conway group Co3 . The end result of his paper was that Co3 is the only such group. In the process of proving this, he needed to consider groups G in which all involutions are conjugate, and such that for any involution x ∈ G, there are subgroups K ⊳ H ⊳ CG(x) such that K and ∼ CG(x)/H have odd order and H/K = Spin7(q) for some odd prime power q. Solomon showed that such a group G does not exist. The proof of this state- ment was also interesting, in the sense that the 2–local structure of the group in question appeared to be internally consistent, and it was only by analyzing its interaction with the p–local structure (where p is the prime of which q is a power) that he found a contradiction. In a later paper [3], Dave Benson, inspired by Solomon’s work, constructed cer- tain spaces which can be thought of as the 2–completed classifying spaces which the groups studied by Solomon would have if they existed. He started with the spaces BDI(4) constructed by Dwyer and Wilkerson having the property that ∗ GL4(2) H (BDI(4); F2) =∼ F2[x1,x2,x3,x4] (the rank four Dickson algebra at the prime 2). Benson then considered, for each odd prime power q, the homotopy fixed point set of the Z–action on BDI(4) generated by an “Adams operation” ψq constructed by Dwyer and Wilkerson. This homotopy fixed point set is denoted here BDI4(q). In this paper, we construct a family of 2–local finite groups, in the sense of [6], which have the 2–local structure considered by Solomon, and whose classifying spaces are homotopy equivalent to Benson’s spaces BDI4(q). The results of [6] combined with those here allow us to make much more precise the statement that these spaces have many of the properties which the 2–completed classifying spaces of the groups studied by Solomon would have had if they existed. To explain what this means, we first recall some definitions. A fusion system over a finite p–group S is a category whose objects are the subgroups of S , and whose morphisms are monomorphisms of groups which include all those induced by conjugation by elements of S . A fusion system is saturated if it satisfies certain axioms formulated by Puig [19], and also listed in [6, Definition 1.2] as well as at the beginning of Section 1 in this paper. In par- ticular, for any finite group G and any S ∈ Sylp(G), the category FS (G) whose objects are the subgroups of S and whose morphisms are those monomorphisms between subgroups induced by conjugation in G is a saturated fusion system over S . Geometry & Topology, Volume 6 (2002) Construction of 2–local finite groups 919 If F is a saturated fusion system over S , then a subgroup P ≤ S is called ′ ′ ′ F –centric if CS(P )= Z(P ) for all P isomorphic to P in the category F . A centric linking system associated to F consists of a category L whose objects are the F –centric subgroups of S , together with a functor L −−→F which is the inclusion on objects, is surjective on all morphism sets and which satisfies certain additional axioms (see [6, Definition 1.7]). These axioms suffice to ensure ∧ that the p–completed nerve |L|p has all of the properties needed to regard it as a “classifying space” of the fusion system F . A p–local finite group consists of a triple (S, F, L), where S is a finite p–group, F is a saturated fusion system over S , and L is a linking system associated to F . The classifying space of ∧ a p–local finite group (S, F, L) is the p–completed nerve |L|p (which is p– complete since |L| is always p–good [6, Proposition 1.12]). For example, if G is a finite group and S ∈ Sylp(G), then there is an explicitly defined centric c linking system LS(G) associated to FS(G), and the classifying space of the c c ∧ ∧ triple (S, FS (G), LS (G)) is the space |LS(G)|p ≃ BGp . Exotic examples of p–local finite groups for odd primes p — ie, examples which do not represent actual groups — have already been constructed in [6], but using ad hoc methods which seemed to work only at odd primes. In this paper, we first construct a fusion system FSol(q) (for any odd prime power q) over a 2–Sylow subgroup S of Spin7(q), with the properties that all elements of order 2 in S are conjugate (ie, the subgroups they gener- ated are all isomorphic in the category), and the “centralizer fusion system” (see the beginning of Section 1) of each such element is isomorphic to the fu- sion system of Spin7(q). We then show that FSol(q) is saturated, and has a c unique associated linking system LSol(q). We thus obtain a 2–local finite group c (S, FSol(q), LSol(q)) where by Solomon’s theorem [22] (as explained in more de- tail in Proposition 3.4), FSol(q) is not the fusion system of any finite group. def c ∧ c Let BSol(q) = |LSol(q)|2 denote the classifying space of (S, FSol(q), LSol(q)). ∧ Thus, BSol(q) does not have the homotopy type of BG2 for any finite group G, but does have many of the nice properties of the 2–completed classifying space of a finite group (as described in [6]). Relating BSol(q) to BDI4(q) requires taking the “union” of the categories c n LSol(q ) for all n ≥ 1. This however is complicated by the fact that an inclusion of fields Fpm ⊆ Fpn (ie, m|n) does not induce an inclusion of cenric linking c n systems. Hence we have to replace the centric linking systems LSol(q ) by cc n the full subcategories LSol(q ) whose objects are those 2–subgroups which are c ∞ c n centric in FSol(q ) = n≥1 FSol(q ), and show that the inclusion induces a ′ n def cc n ∧ n homotopy equivalence BSSol (q ) = |LSol(q )|2 ≃ BSol(q ). Inclusions of fields Geometry & Topology, Volume 6 (2002) 920 Ran Levi and Bob Oliver c ∞ def do induce inclusions of these categories, so we can then define LSol(q ) = cc n n≥1 LSol(q ), and spaces S ∞ c ∞ ∧ ′ n ∧ BSol(q )= |LSol(q )|2 ≃ BSol (q ) 2 . n[≥1 c ∞ q The category LSol(q ) has an “Adams map” ψ induced by the Frobenius au- q ∞ tomorphism x 7→ x of Fq . We then show that BSol(q ) ≃ BDI(4), the space of Dwyer and Wilkerson mentioned above; and also that BSol(q) is equivalent to the homotopy fixed point set of the Z–action on BSol(q∞) generated by q Bψ . The space BSol(q) is thus equivalent to Benson’s spaces BDI4(q) for any odd prime power q. The paper is organized as follows. Two propositions used for constructing sat- urated fusion systems, one very general and one more specialized, are proven in Section 1. These are then applied in Section 2 to construct the fusion sys- tems FSol(q), and to prove that they are saturated. In Section 3 we prove the existence and uniqueness of a centric linking systems associated to FSol(q) and study their automorphisms. Also in Section 3 is the proof that FSol(q) is not the fusion system of any finite group. The connections with the space BDI(4) of Dwyer and Wilkerson is shown in Section 4. Some background material on the spinor groups Spin(V, b) over fields of characteristic 6= 2 is collected in an appendix. We would like to thank Dave Benson, Ron Solomon, and Carles Broto for their help while working on this paper. 1 Constructing saturated fusion systems In this section, we first prove a general result which is useful for constructing saturated fusion systems.
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